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[Thor]

Lauri,

Since the long term reliability of any disc is question, I include this language on every receipt I give my clients, and repeat it to them,

"While I use the best quality discs, there is no guarantee that any disc will last a particular amount of time. You were provided with at least two copies of each disc. It is important that you regularly make copies of each disc, and/or back them up to a computer hard or network drive, so that your precious memories will last for future generations. I can provide you with advice on the hardware and software needed for this purpose. If there is no back-up of an unreadable or damaged disc, any data on that disc will be lost. I do not archive any copies of your data/video files, and will delete them as soon as you approve of my services."

[antonsvideo]

yes, DVD Identifier is a small (free) program, just install it and start it while the bad disk is in your drive, it will tell you who made the Disk

I am very keen to hear your answer

[lauri]

the label brand is often different to the die manufacturer, and only DVD Identifier will tell for sure

Is dvd Identifier a program?

By the way I was able to only recover 11 minutes of the dvd by playing it in a $40.00 dvd player. I am now running CD/DVD Recovery in hopes of saving some more of this DVD.... My client is so pissed at me like it's my fault that 10 years later none of her dvd's work anymore..... Who Knew?

[lauri]

I've never heard of them either, but here's the brand Lauri said it was

http://www.mam-a.com/about

lol Jeff all 4 dvd's have errors....

[lauri]

You're the best!!!! nighty night!

[antonsvideo]

great, now off to bed or I tell mum

[lauri]

are your DVD capture settings correct? reconstruct files needs to be ticked

That's why I love you so much yesterday Edius crashed and all my settings were lost including all my effects I made.... That solved my problem and saved the day as usual..... Thanks Daddy!

[GrassValley_PS]

Pay attention to Brandon's post and specifically the Don't use PTS change.

http://forum.grassvalley.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22218&highlight=Mpeg+green+screen

[antonsvideo]

are your DVD capture settings correct? reconstruct files needs to be ticked

[lauri]

ok well the disc plays in one of those cheap $40.00 dvd players. So I dubbed from dvd deck to deck... Plays now but when I put it on the Edius timeline I am getting a green screen.... but I can see the footage when scrolling thru the timeline but can't get it to play... gezzzz it never ends...

[antonsvideo]

I've never heard of them either, but here's the brand Lauri said it was

http://www.mam-a.com/about

the label brand is often different to the die manufacturer, and only DVD Identifier will tell for sure

[strange]

If the disc is not seen in Windows Explorer I'd still would be tempted to use different DVD drive from a different manufacturer.

If the disc is seen in Windows Explorer, but it has trouble copying some segments to HDD I'd try some of these utilities:
- Iso-Buster;
- DVDFab (years ago they had a part of software related to copying/decrypting for free);
- CD Roller.

Sometimes it does happen that copying does not complete because of a mechanical damage in some particular area of the disc (scratches, dents, etc.). It is in these cases software utilities can help. True you'll get damaged frames but it will depend on the size of damaged area.

Is the disc clean and free of mechanical defects?

[Jeff Chandler]

I've never heard of them either, but here's the brand Lauri said it was

http://www.mam-a.com/about

[antonsvideo]

ok but is there a way to salvage this? Why is the VTS folder want to take 6 hours to transfer to hard drive it's only 3.56GB?

Help......Daddy

if Windows explorer fails to copy/paste VIDEO_TS from DVD to hard disk, you can rest assured that the DVD die has faded and there is no way to recover

I tried CDROLLER on such disks and it does recover some but with so many glitches and missing frames, the result is useless

can you identify the DVD with DVD Identifier? If the disk is Ritek or Rimedia, you have no chance to recover

if you are able to copy/paste the VIDEO_TS folder from DVD to hard disk, then there is a good chance to convert the folder to Canopus HQ Avi using the Swiss Army Knife of Video Professionals

[Tobe]

I recently had this issue with a DVD-R that could not be read in 6.53...I tried it in an older machine with 6.08 and the DVD was able to be read. i don't klnow if that is an option for you.